The Price of Play: Self-Organized Infant Mortality Cycles in Chimpanzees

Hjalmar S. Kuehl; Caroline Elzner; Yasmin Moebius; Christophe Boesch; Peter D. Walsh

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002440

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The Price of Play: Self-Organized Infant Mortality Cycles in Chimpanzees

Hjalmar S. Kuehl ,

* E-mail: kuehl@eva.mpg.de

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Caroline Elzner,

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Yasmin Moebius,

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Christophe Boesch,

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Peter D. Walsh

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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The Price of Play: Self-Organized Infant Mortality Cycles in Chimpanzees

Hjalmar S. Kuehl,
Caroline Elzner,
Yasmin Moebius,
Christophe Boesch,
Peter D. Walsh

Published: June 18, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002440

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Too far - too near

Posted by NiyazAhmed on 18 Jun 2008 at 12:53 GMT

Although I am not a primatologist, I found the manuscript too near to my interest in infectious diseases, also due to my training in Veterinary Medicine....

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Posted by NiyazAhmed on 18 Jun 2008 at 12:53 GMT